For the Teacher

Learning Objectives -

Unit

• Develop a picture of Cherokee culture in the late 1700s and early 1800s by analyzing primary accounts. • Understand the arguments for and against removing the Cherokee from their land in the southeast. • Gain experience in evaluating the credibility of primary and secondary accounts of historical events. • Use GIS software to explore the 1835 federal census of the Cherokee and use the census to evaluate conclusions about the Cherokee and about the "Trail of Tears" experience.

The data and images in the various map layers are from a variety of sources:

Layer	Source
Tanner Map - 1836	Adapted from a portion of Henry S. Tanner, New Map of Tennessee, Philadelphia: 1836 as found at the David Rumsey Map Collection.
Missions	Mission locations from map in Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green, The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents, Boston: Bedford Books, 1995, p 22.
Georgia Gold Regions	Derived from "The Gold Deposits of Georgia," in David Williams, The Georgia Gold Rush, Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina, 1993, p 93.
Census	Based on a 10% random sample from National Archives, Census Roll, 1835, of Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi. NA#T496 Geographic locations in most cases are accurate only to the location of the river or creek identified in the census. Exact locations are not known.

Grant Foreman, Indian Removal, University of Oklahoma Press, 1974.

Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green, The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents, Boston: Bedford Books, 1995.

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

The Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma

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Rick Thomas